Collapsible ironing board



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PATENT OFFICE ENOS PORTER, OF SHELIBYVILLE, INDIANA COLLAPSIBLE IRONING BOARD Application filed April 15, 1929. Serial No. 355,109.

Many women, when traveling, like to be able to press articles of apparel and many carry with them electric irons for that purpose and some carry small pressing boards but have experienced difliculty in suitably supporting such portable boards for convenient use. Others, as many hotels have found to their sorrow, because of the lack of convenient means of supporting a proper press board, have used table tops to the great damage thereof. I

The object of my invention is to produce a collapsible, readily portable, structure of such character that it may be readily and firmly supported for use by suspension upon a door knob or other convenient protuberance such as can always be found to be avail able.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my 2g invention.

Fig. 1 is a plan of an embodiment of my invention in place on a door knob;

Fig. 2 a vertical section of the construction shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 an end elevation with a portion of the strut broken away;

Figtaside elevation of the collapsed structure; Fig. 5 a perspective view of a sheet metal 39 embodiment of my invention, and

Fig. 6 a fragmentary perspective of a slight modification.

In the drawings 10 indicates a press board of suitable shape and size upon the upper face r of which may be placed a suitable pad commonly employed. Hinged to one end of board 10 is a base board or arm 11 perforated at 12 with a key-hole slot adapted to receive a door-knob or other headed protuberance 14. A brace 15, hinged at 16 to arm 11 is adapted to engage at its free end with a stop 17 carried by the under face of board 10.

Parts 11 and 16 are preferably so formed and associated that they may be folded down flat against board 10 for easy packing and transportation.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, the parts are of sheet metal stiffened by side flanges and so associated that the parts 11 and 15 may be nested within part 10.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a strap or loop 20 as a substitute for the key-hole slot 12.

It will be readily understood that the contour of board 10 may be varied within wide ranges without departing from my invention and that the board may be utilized in other ways than as a press board.

I claim as my invention:

A collapsible and portable table comprising a main section, and an element secured to said main sectioi'i and adapted to be supported in a position at an angle to the plane ENOS PORTER. 

